Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-07-30
EDUCATIONAL.
THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS OUR Ma.
TION'S SAFEGUARD.
Eloquent Addresses OF Prof. Ira G..
Hoitt and Prof Beard at Metro
politan Theater.

AT the opening of the High School
graduating exercises, held at the Metro.
politan Theater Thursday evening, Prof
ri. r. Beard, Superintendent of the CITY
schools, made the following address:
Ladies and gentlemen, and YOU nv
young friends, who are about to enter The
busy colledge of life, where stern exne-
renee is teacher and the commencement
DAY OF which, for all of us, is the dawn of
eternltys mystery
1t is with a feeling of both relief and of
10y that l welcome You, for you are stu
cents well prepared to share with ms the
duties and responsibilities, the hopes and
me promises provided for in the curricu-
Ium OF LIES tenuous span
The human being is born in the world
endowed with gracious infinity of SLIM
Derlng capabilities, yet how many. many
millions OF our fellow creatures of this
WIDE earth, owing to circumstances over
which they, truly, have little control
are doomed to pass 10 that eternal waking
through HE darksome with the want If
night! How many millions of Others
traverse tnelr feeble span at the most in
twilight How very few of all THAT tread
the earth-and you, my young friends. are
OF that band-how very few perceive their
paths illumined by this lighl, which hath
peen kIndled and famed and nourished by
Inc Fuller Education. Let this reflection
Keep alive forever in your breasts the feel
ing OF your obligation-the feeling of your
oDllgatlon 1t is here where your resnonsi
bilities begin. NoJEesse oJiiqe! saws a
French proverb. Yes, rank has its obliea-
aons-not that rank and lineage, though,
as Emerson says, it's well enough to know
ones grandiather-that the American idea
has set aside and " hich the French Reyo-
luton hath attempted to sweep AWAY in
Europe-nay, that meek nobility, bred by
me mind hnmane.the prototye of whichwiil
Shihe through all the ages in the Sufferer
on the Cross Raised to that pure emmy
rean, and surrounded by its inspiring a.
mosphere, your horizon has expanded and
your Obligations have increased. FORCED
ana fashioned as you are yourselves in that
molly tlre OF enlightenment, it becomes yoDr
moral duty 10 feed that flame, on all occa-
sions, IN all conditions, in ali yicissitudes
which checkered life's Kaleidoscope
changes may ever have in store. with the
exempilheations on your part of a spirit of
unselhshness TO the fostering cares of the
humanities.
While congratulating you, nv Young
friends, on the opportunities you have en-
Ioyed II this city's High School, permit
me to point with the just pride of citizen
OF this community, to an institution of
learning which forms at once the attraction
and the ambition, the gladness and the sat
Isfactlon OF US all. The schools of a com
munity-and what does that mean but its
enduring welfare and prosperity ?-are ever
as good as the citizens thereof desire them
TO be.
To you, whose spirit and whose views. as
the tide OF years rolls on, are trusted to
make themselves conspicuously felt. to Won
this sacred heritage-The School-shall
look for that loving, enlightened and hui
name support which will not only con-
1nue them on the level they have reached,
but raise them to higher, more ideal
perfection. What trust then, my young
friends, ls this confded to your care and
may this abiding faith in your worth and
worthiness ever be the monitor of your
actions.
REMARKS OF THE STATE SUPERINTENDENT
At the close of the exercises Prof. Ira G.
Hoitt, State Superintendent of Public In
struction, delivered the following address
Ladies and Gentlemen, Parents aud Friends.
The occasion which brings us together is
most happy one. We come to greet these
young graduates as they step from the
summit Of the Sacramento School Depart
ment into life as it is in this busy world of
ours, and to bid them hearty God speed
and good voyage.
l congratulate you, Prof Anderson, and
your associate teachers, the pupils of the
school, the Board of Education and the
people OF this city, upon the condition and
standing of the Sacramento High School.
1t ranks among the first in the State AS
Superintendent of Public instruction and
Regent OF the University, | congratulate
you all that when the students of our High
School go out bearing the honor of its
diplomas and present them to the Faculty
OF the University, they are invited to enter
at the front door of that institution
without the formality of an exami-
nation. This is a state of things of
which the people of Sacramento may well
be proud. And l say to you people of Sac
ramento, and to you members of the Board
of Education, take good care of your High
School, as well as of the primary and
grammar schools. Do it because it speaks
volumes for the intelligence and progress
siveness of the people. Do it because it
gives the sons and daughters of the poor
man the same opportunity with the
children OF the rich man to improve their
mental condition, and consequently their
station in life. Take care of your High
School as business proposition, for tell
you that in all your business booms the
first question which true parents, about to
settle in any community, ask themselves is
lilAS " l4Gl are Aht
vantages for my children ?" The better
your primary, your grammar and your
High School, the more readily will stran-
gers desirable as citizens locate among
you. Therefore, as q business matter take
good care OF and give ample support to
your High School.
AS apropos to this occasion. and to the
greetings which have met the members of
the class as they have performed we'll their
I &c
tons and greetings of some of the different
nations OF the earth.
These greetings are as varied as the diff
ferent characteristics of the people from
which they come.
The ancient Greeks were scholarly and
much given 20 celebrations and rsioicines,
and their common form of greeting was !:
" Rejoice
The ancient Romans, with their warlike
dispositions, placed much reliance upon
their physical strength and vigor, and gave
3 characteristic salutation Salve;' "be
healthy - " be strong"
The Frenchman, with his polite, gentle
bearing and suaYity of manners, greets you
with Al How do you carry YOURSELF"
The German, with his comfortable, easy
manner of living says " How do you
find yourself?"
The Dutchman, who is a hearty liver
eat and what he shall drink, meets his
neighbor with How do you fare ?"
I" How do You relish your meal?"
The Egyptian, full of the spirit of his fer
yid country, asks you; How do you per-
spire2'
The Chinese greetyou with the question !;
q Have YOU eaten your rice ?"
The Arab, with his religious spirit, meets
you with this prayer May your morning
be good
The Turk, in the same spirit, with; Be
under the care of God
The Persian's salutation is marked by
extravagant compliment, and he greets you
thus: d" May thy shadow never be less"
An old English salutstion in polite society
was Save you, sir, or God save you,
sir"
The most common salutation among civ
ilized nations is the custom of shaking
hands, and in this country the handshak-
ing is accompanied by expressions ike the
following: How are you 2h How do
you do?'
While do not think that any one